All Outputs (11)

OpenLoops 2 (2019)
Journal Article
Buccioni, F., Lang, J.-N., Lindert, J. M., Maierhöfer, P., Pozzorini, S., Zhang, H., & Zoller, M. F. (2019). OpenLoops 2. The European Physical Journal C, 79(10), Article 866. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7306-2

We present the new version of OpenLoops, an automated generator of tree and one-loop scattering amplitudes based on the open-loop recursion. One main novelty of OpenLoops 2 is the extension of the original algorithm from NLO QCD to the full Standard... Read More about OpenLoops 2.

Accurate simulation of W, Z, and Higgs boson decays in Sherpa (2019)
Journal Article
Krauss, F., Lindert, J. M., Linten, R., & Schönherr, M. (2019). Accurate simulation of W, Z, and Higgs boson decays in Sherpa. The European Physical Journal C, 79(2), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6614-x

We discuss the inclusion of next-to–next-to leading order electromagnetic and of next-to leading order electroweak corrections to the leptonic decays of weak gauge and Higgs bosons in the Sherpa event generator. To this end, we modify the Yennie– Fra... Read More about Accurate simulation of W, Z, and Higgs boson decays in Sherpa.

New NLOPS predictions for tt¯+btt¯+b -jet production at the LHC (2018)
Journal Article
Ježo, T., Lindert, J. M., Moretti, N., & Pozzorini, S. (2018). New NLOPS predictions for tt¯+btt¯+b -jet production at the LHC. The European Physical Journal C, 78(6), Article 502. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5956-0

Measurements of tt¯H production in the H→bb¯ channel depend in a critical way on the theoretical uncertainty associated with the irreducible tt¯+b -jet background. In this paper, analysing the various topologies that account for b-jet production in a... Read More about New NLOPS predictions for tt¯+btt¯+b -jet production at the LHC.

Higgs boson pair production at NNLO with top quark mass effects (2018)
Journal Article
Grazzini, M., Heinrich, G., Jones, S., Kallweit, S., Kerner, M., Lindert, J., & Mazzitelli, J. (2018). Higgs boson pair production at NNLO with top quark mass effects. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(5), Article 59. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282018%29059

We consider QCD radiative corrections to Higgs boson pair production through gluon fusion in proton collisions. We combine the exact next-to-leading order (NLO) contribution, which features two-loop virtual amplitudes with the full dependence on the... Read More about Higgs boson pair production at NNLO with top quark mass effects.

Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum at the LHC (2018)
Journal Article
Kudashkin, K., Lindert, J. M., Melnikov, K., & Wever, C. (2018). Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 782, 210-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.05.009

We compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum at the LHC. To accomplish this, we combine the two-loop amplitudes for processes , and , recently computed in the approximation of n... Read More about Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum at the LHC.

Multi-jet merged top-pair production including electroweak corrections (2018)
Journal Article
Gütschow, C., Lindert, J. M., & Schoenherr, M. (2018). Multi-jet merged top-pair production including electroweak corrections. The European Physical Journal C, 78(4), Article 317. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5804-2

We present theoretical predictions for the production of top-quark pairs in association with jets at the LHC including electroweak (EW) corrections. First, we present and compare differential predictions at the fixed-order level for tt¯ and tt¯+jet p... Read More about Multi-jet merged top-pair production including electroweak corrections.

Electroweak Higgs production with HiggsPO at NLO QCD (2017)
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Greljo, A., Isidori, G., Lindert, J. M., Marzocca, D., & Zhang, H. (2017). Electroweak Higgs production with HiggsPO at NLO QCD. The European Physical Journal C, 77(12), Article 838. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5422-4

We present the HiggsPO UFO model for Monte Carlo event generation of electroweak VH and VBF Higgs production processes at NLO in QCD in the formalism of Higgs pseudo-observables (PO). We illustrate the use of this tool by studying the QCD corrections... Read More about Electroweak Higgs production with HiggsPO at NLO QCD.

Precise predictions for V+jets dark matter backgrounds (2017)
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Lindert, J., Pozzorini, S., Boughezal, R., Campbell, J., Denner, A., Dittmaier, S., …Williams, C. (2017). Precise predictions for V+jets dark matter backgrounds. The European Physical Journal C, 77(12), Article 829. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5389-1

High-energy jets recoiling against missing transverse energy (MET) are powerful probes of dark matter at the LHC. Searches based on large MET signatures require a precise control of the Z(νν¯)+Z(νν¯)+ jet background in the signal region. This can be... Read More about Precise predictions for V+jets dark matter backgrounds.

NLO QCD+EW predictions for 2ℓ2ν diboson signatures at the LHC (2017)
Journal Article
Kallweit, S., Lindert, J., Pozzorini, S., & Schoenherr, M. (2017). NLO QCD+EW predictions for 2ℓ2ν diboson signatures at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(11), Article 120. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282017%29120

We present next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations including QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections for 2ℓ2ν diboson signatures with two opposite-charge leptons and two neutrinos. Specifically, we study the processes pp→e+μ−νeν¯¯¯μpp→e+μ−νeν¯μ and pp→... Read More about NLO QCD+EW predictions for 2ℓ2ν diboson signatures at the LHC.

NLO QCD+EW predictions for HV and HV +jet production including parton-shower effects (2017)
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Granata, F., Lindert, J., Oleari, C., & Pozzorini, S. (2017). NLO QCD+EW predictions for HV and HV +jet production including parton-shower effects. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(9), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282017%29012

We present the first NLO QCD+EW predictions for Higgs boson production in association with a ℓνℓ or ℓ+ℓ− pair plus zero or one jets at the LHC. Fixed-order NLO QCD+EW calculations are combined with a QCD+QED parton shower using the recently developed... Read More about NLO QCD+EW predictions for HV and HV +jet production including parton-shower effects.

Top-Bottom Interference Effects in Higgs Plus Jet Production at the LHC (2017)
Journal Article
Lindert, J. M., Melnikov, K., Tancredi, L., & Wever, C. (2017). Top-Bottom Interference Effects in Higgs Plus Jet Production at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 118(25), Article 252002. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.118.252002

We compute next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the top-bottom interference contribution to H þ j production at the LHC. To achieve this, we combine the recent computation of the two-loop amplitudes for gg → Hg and qg → Hq, performed in the appro... Read More about Top-Bottom Interference Effects in Higgs Plus Jet Production at the LHC.